Spend time: A Satirical Poem

By Gaurav Chandra Tuli -

 Reflect over the dangers of constantly outsourcing time as a distant idea - a concept of a resource to be used.


Spend time

but don't waste it.

Anything spent - 

A resource 

of productive optimisation.

You know

you have less time,

Rather, you always had.

Don't "pass" it away.

Use time, again

productively,

That you may have

more free time.

The golden future awaits.

Invest time

in the maximisation of output,

Don't kill it.

Time is a resource

valuable.

It can be extracted,

Spent,

Measured,

Bought,

Made output-yielding,

But not lived

as experience.

It can't be dwelled in.

No thoughts to that.

Or you risk

obsolescence,

A timed-robot

malfunctioning.


What do we even know or understand of time (its nature) other than our phenomenological experience of it? Isn't it equally wise to sometimes - if not always - live and focus on psychological time as opposed to clock time - popularised by late-capitalism? Think.

Read "Waiting - A Philosophical Exploration of the In-Between" to reflect over the other aspect of time, its lived texture.

https://mindtales2024.blogspot.com/2026/01/waiting-philosophical-exploration-of-in.html

Also read "True Patriotism and Duty" to taste another satire.

https://mindtales2024.blogspot.com/2024/03/social-satire-short-story.html

Gaurav Chandra Tuli

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